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Ranching Catalogue Part 2(Authors D-G)

Items 1640-1664

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1640. DOBIE, J. Frank & Jeff Dykes. Forty-Four Range Country
Books Topped Out by J. Frank Dobie in 1941, and Forty-Four More Range Country
Books Topped Out by Jeff Dykes in 1971. Austin: Encino Press, 1972. vii
[1] 32 pp., illustrated title page of a cowhand reading a book (by Will Crawford).
8vo, original brown cloth, upper cover with pictorial paper label (repeating
Crawford’s illustration on title). Very fine in original glassine d.j.
Signed by Dykes. Carl Hertzog’s copy, with his bookplate.First edition, limited edition (1,000 copies). Basic
Texas Books B72. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Crawford
27). Whaley, Wittliff 88. Superb notes by two experts on range literature.
JFD comments on his selections: “In picking the following titles, I have
considered vitality, readability, fidelity to range life, and historical information....
I realize how easy it would be to add forty-four more titles and still not get
down to skimmed milk.” To Dobie’s original 1941 choices, Dykes adds
44 more well-annotated selections, all published between 1941 and 1971. $65.00

Item 1640

1641. DOBIE, J. Frank & Jeff Dykes. Forty-Four...and Forty-Four...Range
Country Books.... Austin: Encino Press, 1972. Another copy. Very
fine in original glassine d.j. Jeff Dykes’ signed presentation copy
to noted collector Dorothy Josey: “For Mrs. Clint Josey—discriminating
book buyer and range life collector. I think my old paisano Pancho would
have loved this one and I hope you do—Jeff.” $65.00

1643. DOBIE, J. Frank (ed.). Foller de Drinkin’ Gou’d. Austin:
Texas Folk-Lore Society, 1928. 201 pp., printed music. 8vo, original red pictorial
wrappers bound in brown and green mottled cloth. Top edge slightly foxed, several
spots on title page, otherwise fine.First edition, wrappers issue. Publications of the
Texas Folk-Lore Society 7. Basic Texas Books 203:7. CBC 3427. Dobie,
p. 129: “Scores, with music and anecdotal interpretations.” McVicker
B7. WLA, Literary History of the American West, p. 503: “Unquestionably,
Dobie’s major achievement was that almost single-handedly he made southwesterners
of the 1920s and 1930s, when very little southwestern literature as such existed,
aware of the literary possibilities of their folk heritage.” In his contribution “More
Ballads and Songs of the Frontier Folk,” JFD provides biographical information
on Charlie Johnson, “a genuine cowboy balladist” and writer of “The
Cowboy’s Stroll.” JFD tells how Johnson went to work on Tom O’Connor’s
ranch in South Texas in 1877 at age sixteen, first went up the trail in 1880,
and claimed to have branded more cattle than any other man in Texas. Also included
in this anthology is Newton Gaines’s “Some Characteristics of Cowboy
Songs.” $40.00

1644. DOBIE, J. Frank (ed.). Legends of Texas. Austin:
Texas Folk-Lore Society, 1924. xii, 282 pp., photographic plate, map, 2 text
illustrations. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt. Binding dull and moderately worn,
hinges weak, occasional mild to moderate foxing (especially to fore-edges and
endsheets), overall a very good copy.First edition. Texas Folk-Lore Society Publications
3. Basic Texas Books 203:3. Dykes, My Dobie Collection, (#8 on
his rarities list), p. 9: “Of the books edited by Dobie, I regard Legends
of Texas...as the hardest to find and apt to be the most expensive. Frank
wrote in my copy...on March 1, 1943: ‘How proud I was of this book...my
first.... A rare book now.’ Twenty-eight more years have added to the problem
of finding a copy.” McVicker B3(a).
JFD wrote approximately one-third of the material for Legends and
edited the remainder. Depending on how one wishes to interpret bibliography,
this could be considered Dobie’s first “book.” John R. Craddock’s “The
Legend of Stampede Mesa” tells a legend from the Texas Panhandle about
a murdered cattle buyer. His ghost reputedly haunted a spot in Crosby County
considered excellent for holding cattle on a trail drive, and thus herd bosses
avoided the area because the ghost was said to cause stampedes. $100.00

1653. DOBIE, J. Frank (ed.). Puro Mexicano. Austin: [Designed
by H. Stanley Marcus for the] Texas Folk-Lore Society, 1935. [2] x, 261 pp.,
title illustrated with sombrero. 8vo, half black cloth over rose cloth. Fore-edges
lightly foxed, otherwise fine, in original glassine d.j.First edition, cloth issue. Publications of the Texas
Folk-Lore Society 12. Basic Texas Books 203:12. McVicker B21. Paul S.
Taylor’s “Songs of Mexican Migration” includes the corrido “The
Two Rancheros” (dialogue between a returned emigrant and a rancher who
remained in Mexico). Sarah S. McKellar, a native Texan and the wife of a Scottish
rancher in Mexico, relates the tale “Br’er Coyote” as told
by her ranch cook. In the telling, McKellar provides social history on ranch
life at La Mariposa in northern Coahuila. In Joe Storm’s “Sons of
the Devil,” Jim Jackson, a cowman of the old school, tells of Mescalero
Apache stealing horses from Texan and Mexican ranches and the tale of Diablo,
a big black stallion thought to be a medicine horse. Simple, elegant design by
Stanley Marcus of Nieman-Marcus fame. $45.00

1658. DOBIE, J. Frank (ed.). Tone the Bell Easy. Austin:
Texas Folk-Lore Society, 1932. 199 [1] pp., illustrations by Ben Carlton Mead
and Tom Smith, printed music. 8vo, later three-quarter maroon calf over white
cloth (bound by Dr. S. K. Stroud). A few leaves spotted and a bit worn, generally
very good.First edition. Publications of the Texas Folk-Lore
Society 10. Basic Texas Books 203:10. Cook 82. Dobie, p. 177 (citing J.
Mason Brewer’s article “Juneteenth”): “Outstanding as
a collection of tales.” Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Mead
31): “Including the first use of the Mead paisano drawing as official emblem
of the [Texas Folk-Lore] Society.” McVicker B15(a).
In his introduction, JFD speaks of the Society’s adoption
of the roadrunner as its emblem and how this came to be. Ruth Dodson’s
excellent “Folk Curing among the Mexicans” discusses various folk
medicines of the brush country and curandero Don Pedro Jaramillo (based on contributions
by J. T. Canales of Brownsville, and A. T. Canales, of Premont, sons of the late
Don Andrés Canales, pioneer ranchman of the region where Don Pedro lived).
Jovita González in “Among My People” documents customs of
the ranch folk of the Texas-Mexico borderlands. JFD in “Mustang Gray: Fact,
Tradition, and Song” explores the swashbuckling adventures of San Jacinto
veteran M. B. (“Mustang”) Gray, including evidence that Gray was
a leader among the raiders who beginning in 1839 preyed on Mexican ranches between
the Nueces and the Rio Grande. Gray and his men, who attempted to establish the
Republic of the Rio Grande, “became known as ‘Cow-Boys’—thus
not only contributing a name to the men whose occupation was to make Texas famous
but also fixing on them a reputation that the public at large has never forgotten.” $65.00

1663. [DOBIE, J. FRANK]. DANIEL, Price, Jr. Texas and the
West: Catalogue No. 24 Featuring the Writings of J. Frank Dobie; A Contribution
towards a Bibliography. Waco: [Designed by Carl Hertzog for Price Daniel,
Jr., 1963]. [36] pp., frontispiece portrait of Dobie (by Tom Lea), text illustrations
(including photographic portrait of JFD). 8vo, original terracotta cloth
with JFD symbolic roadrunner stamped in brown on upper cover. Very fine.
Scarce in the cloth limited edition.First edition, limited edition (#52 of 210 numbered
copies bound in cloth). Basic Texas Books B62: “One of the earliest
attempts at a Dobie checklist.” Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Lea
121); “Not in Cook” 203. Lowman, Printer at the Pass 159A.
Introductory material includes Lawrence Clark Powell’s “Mr. Southwest” and
Jeff C. Dykes’ “J. Frank Dobie and His Books.” Handsome catalogue
with good annotations.
In discussing JFD’s range collection, Dykes comments: “Frank’s
critical annotations and comments are in many of his range books, and while the
practice of writing in books is frowned on by most dealers and collectors, who
among us would turn down one personally annotated by a Dobie or a Webb or a Bedichek?” $50.00